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Heroes of the Storm |OT2| Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

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Celegus

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Who is in the finals?

I've been out all morning and won't be home til after it's over sadly.

MYI vs Fnatic. There's a huge delay though, the finals still haven't even started yet. Seem to be having all kinds of issues. Should be a great set once they do start though.
 

Alur

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These delays and general haphazardness from Dreamhack are pretty gat damn depressing.

I hope this is not a continuous thing cause it's definitely hurting the viewership.
 

Shinypogs

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That 1% is the sort of thing I'd agonize over for weeks. I can't imagine the fortitude of pro players to have a game like that and be able to carry on and in some cases turn a series around instead of tilting.
 

Alur

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1) Natural Perspective
4) Nimble Wisp
7) Nature's Culling (wave clear) or Wild Vigor (damage). Culling more useful IMO.
10) Thornwood Vine
13) Unfair Advantage (damage) or Greater Spell Shield (safety when facing Ming/KT/so forth)
16) Star Wood Spear
20) Forest's Wrath (damage) or Galloping Gait (safety/closing for kills)

Poke, poke, poke. Be annoying. Chip away. Everyone underestimates Lunara's damage, and then they die. You do have to be able to get in auto attacks with her, though, or otherwise you should play someone else IMO cause your damage just won't be there.
 
Also don't try and trade with other dps, especially right-click heroes, apply your DoT and back off. Just keep weaving in and out of range applying your DoT to the whole creep wave and hero. Lunara is about spreading love, if love was stabby and poisonous.
 

Milly79

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The spear spread at 7 is pretty good too, especially if they don't have a healer that can heal multiple people. At 16 the attack speed boost is another good choice as well.
 

Celegus

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1) Natural Perspective
4) Nimble Wisp
7) Nature's Culling (wave clear) or Wild Vigor (damage). Culling more useful IMO.
10) Thornwood Vine
13) Unfair Advantage (damage) or Greater Spell Shield (safety when facing Ming/KT/so forth)
16) Star Wood Spear
20) Forest's Wrath (damage) or Galloping Gait (safety/closing for kills)

Poke, poke, poke. Be annoying. Chip away. Everyone underestimates Lunara's damage, and then they die. You do have to be able to get in auto attacks with her, though, or otherwise you should play someone else IMO cause your damage just won't be there.

This is what I use to a T. One of my favorite heroes.
 
So, I'm pretty casual when it comes to HotS, only around 500 games total, and mainly stick with QM. But in light of the preseason rewards I thought to myself "Hey, I'll do my placement matches to at least get something." I grab a friend who says he'll help and we queue for HL. That end game raging, so strong. When the enemy pushes on your core and people start trying to pick fights about who did what wrong, report this person, etc. I only got directly targeted by the outburst once when a teammate begged everyone to report me, but it's hard not to take personally. Four more games till I'm done, I think I can stomach through it. I salute those of you who put up with this abuse all time time. I think I saw more raging in one night than months of QM.
 

scoobs

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So, I'm pretty casual when it comes to HotS, only around 500 games total, and mainly stick with QM. But in light of the preseason rewards I thought to myself "Hey, I'll do my placement matches to at least get something." I grab a friend who says he'll help and we queue for HL. That end game raging, so strong. When the enemy pushes on your core and people start trying to pick fights about who did what wrong, report this person, etc. I only got directly targeted by the outburst once when a teammate begged everyone to report me, but it's hard not to take personally. Four more games till I'm done, I think I can stomach through it. I salute those of you who put up with this abuse all time time. I think I saw more raging in one night than months of QM.

Welcome to MOBAs. The home for people who think they're better than everyone else and nothing is their fault. Its really frustrating, I almost recommend turning off team chat because you can always just ping people. Its a much more pleasant experience.
 

Maledict

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That was brutal. E-Star had been playing for over 7 hours at that point - major props to them for taking two games off MPV_Black. You can tell how tired they were though, their Diablo was constantly fucking up and saving their kill target by flipping them to safety.
 

Cerato

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In qms, you tend to see a lot of 4 assassins and maybe a specialist. Lunara is super strong in those cases because you can just sit back and drop poison on peeps who will never catch you.
 

kirblar

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C9 currently getting blown up by a Syl/Xul push comp on DS (Also featuring Jaina/Kerrigan/Uther.)

Love seeing the push comps on DS, they throw teams off hard.

Also showcasing that the issue with Jaina really isn't her power level, it's the other mages.

edit: lolKT16
 

Alur

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Ah, whew. Damn.

Losing to TNC/THC doe. Gat damn.

So many parallels between their play lately and Tempo Storm's last year as they lost the grip on the throne. Just relying on those same fucking comps and heroes over and over and over.
 

Alur

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Just think how many heroes he could learn if he played for two hours a day!

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Ketch

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Try to think about it differently.

Instead of putting in a bunch of work earlier, they've gotten to relax and enjoy themselves this whole time. Now, they'll just wait till the last second to get in to regionals, and everything will be fine. It'll all be fine.


It's a lot like studying for finals.
 

Alur

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Yeah 5 is the tops right now, IIRC. I'm guessing you'd have to be perfect to get it, though? I had a better record on my second smurf (16-4 or 15-5, I forget) and got 8 while getting higher on my first smurf.
 

Maledict

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The fact that rank 1s are getting matched with people on their placement matches still infuriates me. I swear it didn't happen as much as it has been since the tracer patch - literally every game seems to have at least one person on placement matches now.
 

Ketch

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The fact that rank 1s are getting matched with people on their placement matches still infuriates me. I swear it didn't happen as much as it has been since the tracer patch - literally every game seems to have at least one person on placement matches now.

probably people lookin at tgetting the mount
 

Ketch

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it's the same mount right?

I would love to do it for the avatar, but it's like finals time and i just can't... I would sabotage my finals for that mount if I didn't already get it from HL though
 

kirblar

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it's the same mount right?

I would love to do it for the avatar, but it's like finals time and i just can't... I would sabotage my finals for that mount if I didn't already get it from HL though
Yeah. Difference is that you get it as long as you get rank 40 in TL.
 

Alur

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The fact that rank 1s are getting matched with people on their placement matches still infuriates me. I swear it didn't happen as much as it has been since the tracer patch - literally every game seems to have at least one person on placement matches now.

I honestly don't think it's any more or less. Was like that on both of smurfs ranked up at two separate times last fall and winter.

And why would it not place people in placements with rank 1s if they are similar MMR? Just because they took a break or something doesn't mean they don't belong there. It's doubtful there are enough in just placements at that level to put them in a placement only game.

It does get murky if they are truly new and have just been on a hot streak to hit that MMR in like 10 games (like a smurf, but without the skill/knowledge) but the system and most MMR systems exist to continue pushing you into tougher competition til it finds your break point where you fall back.

Yeah. Difference is that you get it as long as you get rank 40 in TL.

Definitely a lot easier to get it that way if you have the groups/friends to do it.
 
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